Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-02

ont at Huron last week where she hat
been taken for some repairs.
While il England ]. T. NJ. Pierce, o
this city, sold his half interest in tn,
Knox oounty, Nebraska, ranch o
Maciagin & Pierce for $4,000. Mr.
Pisrce will now retire from the stool
growing business.
A Yanktcn business man says he ii
somewhat fasigued reading in the Press
and Daketaian monthly summary tina,
We are short on rain. He wants MS &c
make a restful paragraph to. the effect
that we are long on rain. To the casual
observer his version of the case appears
correct.
Mail deposited in the postofice later
than nine O'Clock In the evening will not
go out on the trains OF the next morning,
The morning train on the Milwaukee has
nc postal car and letters cannot be
mailed on that tram. The frst North
western train out in the morning affords
mailing facilities,
The steamer Minnie Herman ran
against q snag and sunk IN the 23d ult.
about three miles below LIE Beau. She
was Loaded with eighty tons Of pork and
bacon for Standing Rock agency. The
boat was owned by the Missouri River
Packet Co., and WAS uninsured. There
was an open policy on the cargo for
$4,000.
A Ponoa, Nebraska nan In Omaha in
formed q Bee reporter that an excellent
vein OF coal had been discovered at
Ponca, and that it was being worked in
q modest way, the ~prospectors having
taken out in n day as many as three
tons. He claimed the matter was being
kept as secret as possible. The vein, he
says, is twenty.seven inches thick and
the coal sells at four dollars per ton.
The county Sunday school convention
opens in the NJ. E. church OF this city
to morrow at 1870 a. m. Members of
the different schools and citizens gen.
orally are requested to attend the day
sessions especially. d. P. Ward, OF
Sioux Falls, will be present to conduct
the convention and it is anticipated that
workers from all over the county will be
here. See programme in q previous
issue of this pepper.
Judge w. a. Brammer, who was in
town to-day, says the rainfall OF We'd
nesday night at Utica was measured by
him. In one pail which was q trihe nar.
rover at the top than at the bottom he
caught three and one half inches and In
another pail q trifle wider at the top than
at the bottom he caught four inches.
The actual, rain fall was probably three
and three-quarters inches end all in O
few hours, This beats the record.
Ap examination of the rear entrance
to Mr.. Redaelli's iewelry store shows
that the burglars of Tuesday night
tried first to effect an entrance from that
side, but failed. There is d double door
in the rear and the burglars ded
in prying open the outside door. but the
inside door was held by an iron bar on
| the inside which resisted their efforts.
Failing here they went to the front door
and broke out the glass. Mr.. Redaelli
did not examine the back entrance until
last night.
The Herald folks sarcastically enquire
how it happens that ps tienss are being
admitted to the insane hospital II chat
institution is full, and why If patient
can be admitted from Clay county a
patient from Brown county cannot be
admitted. The Herald knows the
answer to these questions and its at.
tempts to prejudice the management
are not reputable. Whenever o new
patient is admitted an old patient has to
be discharged, Probably at the time the
Brown county patient applied
for admission there was
no case in the hospital in a fit condition
to be turned out, and probably the first
vacancy was reserved for the Clay coun-
ty patient under q prior application. In
the present crowded condition Of the
hospital new cases can be taken only as
vacancies ocour through discharges OF
deaths.
xsThe Omaha Republican OF the Let inst
says: "There is no longer any doubt thal
the Missouri Pacific company is getting
ready to build the proposed extension
from Omaha to Yankton. A gentleman
in position to know what he is talking
about said yesterday that had s. a. 81
CLARK been made general manager 81
the Missouri Pacific system six months
sooner than he was, at least $50 milei
of the road would haze beer
built this year. Before doing
anything with the enterprise, Mr.. Clarl
was compelled to get a stop put to sew.
eral other projected extensions snt
branch lines, which he has succeeded II
doing, as well as to complete two o
three roads that are In course of con
struotion. Soon as possible he will turl
his attention to the Omaha and Yanktol
project, providing some other corpora
ton does not in the meantime jump il
ahead OF him and occupy the route
This, however, is not likely to occur"
j. RundalI-The celebrated plan
tuner will be in Yankton about the l5tt
Leave orders at Wagoner's music ator.
The boss screen doors at the st. Croi